Provo Municipal Airport (IATA: PVU, ICAO: KPVU, FAA LID: PVU) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the city of Provo in Utah County, Utah, USA. It is currently the second busiest public airport in Utah in terms of aircraft movements, with 172,000 logged aircraft operations in a twelve-month period ending in May 2007.
The airport is mostly used for general aviation purposes, and did not offer any scheduled commercial flights to the airport until June 2011 when Frontier Airlines began offering daily flights to and from Denver. Salt Lake City International Airport (approximately 40 miles (64 km) north) is the closest airport with frequent commercial flights to multiple cities. However, SkyWest Airlines did offer service to the airport from 1974-1975.
Service to Denver was discontinued in January 2013 due to financial reasons. Allegiant Air began service to Phoenix/Mesa in February 2013. In March 2013, Allegiant announced twice-weekly service to Oakland International Airport beginning June 7, 2013. Beginning June 6, 2013, Allegiant Air will begin nonstop Airbus A319 service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
The airport has one fixed base operator. The airport is extensively used for flight training and is home to flight schools, including one operated by Utah Valley University. For the last 6 months of 2011 the airport had 14,858 enplanements.
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